30 Day Book Challenge: 18

[kasihya]

Day 18 – A book that disappointed you

I’ve already mentioned Swordspoint, so I’m not going to go over that again. But even that had its good points. The one book that disappointed me immensely was Twilight. I read it just before it got really, really popular, so the only thing I knew about it going in was that it was a book about a vampire who falls in love with a human, and these two girls I really respected loved it. (Okay, confession: I may have thought they were two of the coolest people ever, of the Hot Topic, MCR and System of A Down variety. I heard them talking about how cool it was one day, and I thought, well, I've heard of this book before, and I was in my wannabe-goth phase then, so I decided I would read this book about vampires. I went in expecting blood and darkness and gore, and it was just … not there. At all. I didn't even have any standards for writing style, so that didn't bother me until Meyer mentioned his breath smelling good, at which point alarm bells started to go off.

It was distressing. I wanted blood and tragedy, and I got teen angst instead.

I could also mention the awful epilogue to the Deathly Hallows, but the Battle of Hogwarts was the greatest thing ever, so I won't.